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...the judge of society and the state.” This doctrine was expounded in full detail by the Romantic poet Gautier as early as 1835 in the preface to his entertaining and sexually daring novel
Mademoiselle de Maupin. In those pages the familiar argument against bourgeois philistinism, against practical utility, against the prevailing dullness, ugliness, and wrongness of daily life was...

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